STEPHEN Clemence today insisted that no heads are dropping at Blues despite their wretched run of form.

STEPHEN Clemence today insisted that no heads are dropping at Blues despite their wretched run of form.

And the midfielder revealed that staying positive is not as hard as it might seem - because there?s an underlying confidence that the club?s present location in the Premiership relegation zone is only temporary.

?The lads are all positive,? Clemence said. ?And that?s the way it has to be.

?We all know we have not had the start to the season we wanted. But the situation is not going to improve if we go around moping and in a negative mood.

?We are staying bright and positive because we know this position in the table is not where we belong.

?It?s where we are at the moment and it?s not good enough. But it?s up to us to get ourselves out of trouble - and we are well-capable of

doing that. We are getting most of our players back from injury now and that will be a big help.

?The squad we have got here, when everybody is fit, is very good. I?ve been here almost as long as the club?s been in the Premiership and it?s the best squad we have had in that time.?

That?s all well and good --but as Blues manager Steve Bruce pointed out in yesterday?s Birmingham Mail, it is now essential to start translating that quality into the hard currency of points.

Next up are Bolton Wanderers at St Andrew?s on Monday - a far from easy game with Sam Allardyce?s team sitting third in the Premiership and on a run of five successive wins in league and cups.

It will be a contest between two clubs still relatively new to the Premiership but currently in hugely contrasting positions.

?Bolton will be tough,? said Clemence.

?They have only been in the Premier League one year longer than us but have done brilliantly this season. They are third in the table and in Europe too.

?Sam Allardyce has got them playing really well and they are difficult to play against.

?But we?ve got to get at them and impose our game on them a s much as we can because this is the start of a vital spell for us.

?We?ve had a good look at the fixtures and seen that we?ve got a good run of fixtures coming up. No Premiership game is ever easy but our next four are all games that we?ve got to regard as ones we can win.

?About this time last year we won four on the spin which lifted us to ninth place in the table. That?s the sort of run we need now.?